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delaware vs sam houston state
a new era
Yea r 4th in 2025
Overall Record 68-39
Home 32-16
Away 27-19
Neutral 9-5
Conference 44-22
Non-Conference 26-17
YEAR W-L PCT. CONF
2006 7-21 .250 6-12
2007 8-22 .267 4-12
2008 4-22 .125 2-14
2022 17-11 .607 10-6
2023 24-5 .828 15-3
2024 20-7 .741 15-3
2025 7-16 .304 4-10
TOTAL 86-104 .453 54-70
First career win: 3-0 vs Loyola Maryland
August 25, 2006
Postseason: 5-2 in Conference Tournament
Postseason: 0-1 in NCAA Tournament
Kimberly Lambert began her tenure as
head coach of the University of Delaware
volleyball program on February 21, 2022.
Lambert recently completed her eighth
season with the Blue Hens, her third
season as head coach.
In 2024, Delaware claimed the CAA
Regular Season Championship with a 15-3
record - the fifth regular-season title in
program history - and achieved a 20-7
overall record, despite graduating six
players from the 2023 CAA Tournament
Championship team. Lambert recorded
her 50th career win as Delaware’s head
coach, faster than anyone in program
history. She needed just 70 games,
surpassing Delaware Hall of Famer
Barbara Viera who reached 50 wins in 76
games. UD set a program record for most
consecutive set victories with 18 from
Nov. 2-16, and tied its conference wins
program record at 15. Delaware became
just the ninth team in CAA history to
reach at least three-consecutive CAA
Championship matches.
Lambert’s second year was one of the
most successful seasons in Blue Hens
history. Delaware made the NCAA
Tournament after winning its fifth CAA
Conference Tournament Championship
by defeating Towson on its home
court. Along the way, Delaware won 15
consecutive matches, the longest win
streak in program history. Delaware
also won a program-record 11 road
matches. Nationally, Delaware finished
22nd in aces per set (1.86), 37th in hitting
percentage (.257), and 20th in winning
percentage (.828). Savannah Seemans
finished nationally fifth in aces per set
(0.58) and total aces (64) and Lani Mason
finished 27th in aces per set (0.46) and
total aces (51).
In her first year as head coach, Lambert’s
team had a 17-11 record and went 10-6
in conference play. UD put together a
nine-match winning streak from Sept.
9 through Oct. 3, winning 27-of-31 sets
played, including 12-straight. The Blue
Hens advanced to its first CAA title
match since 2016 during the conference
tournament. Lani Mason was named
AVCA All-American Honorable Mention,
AVCA East All-Region, ECAC Offensive
Player of the Year, CAA Player of the
Year, CAA First-Team All-Conference,
CAA and All-Tournament selection
As associate head coach, Lambert has
helped coach the Blue Hens to two (CAA)
Tournament appearances, including a
semifinal showing in 2021.
Prior to Delaware, Lambert served as
the assistant coach at North Carolina
State and one season as the director of
operations from 2013-16. North Carolina
State won 20 matches in her final fall,
posted a school-record 13 Atlantic Coast
Conference victories.
Lambert spent four seasons as the top
assistant coach at Marshall from 2009-
12. While with the Herd, helped guide
Marshall to a 22-9 record in 2009.
Lambert served three seasons as the
head coach at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
from 2006-08, where she was one of the
youngest head coaches in Division I. She
coached the 2006 Southland Conference
Newcomer of the Year in Christie Feliz,
who ended her career as the school’s
leader in kills per set.
Lambert also served as the top assistant
at UTEP from 2004-05, where she
was the Miners’ recruiting coordinator,
defensive coordinator and outside
hitters coach. She was the head coach
at Caldwell (Texas) High School in 2003,
where she led the Lady Hornets to the
3A State semifinals. She was named the
District 18-3A Coach of the Year and the
Brazos Valley Area Coach of the Year.
She began her coaching career in 2002
as an assistant coach at Rice.
A native of Sugar Land, Texas, Lambert
played collegiately at Texas A&M-
Kingsville and earned a bachelor’s degree
in kinesiology in 2001. She was inducted
into the university’s athletics hall of fame
in 2022. As a student-athlete, she earned
All-Lone Star Conference honors in 1997,
1998, and 1999 and sits third in career kills,
fifth in season kills, third in career total
attacks, eighth in season total attacks,
second in single match total attacks, ninth
in career kills per set, second in career
service aces, fourth in career digs per set,
first in season digs per set, fifth in match
service aces, first in career digs, first in
season digs, second in match block solos,
second in career points, and eighth in
season points.
YEAR SCHOOL POSITION
2022-Pres. Delaware Head Coach
2017-22 Delaware Assistant/Associate Head Coach
2013-16 North Carolina State Assistant Coach/Director of Operations
2009-12 Marshall Assistant Coach
2006-08 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Head Coach
2004-05 UTEP Assistant Coach
2003 Caldwell High School (Texas) Head Coach
2002 Rice Assistant Coach
HEAD COACH KIMBERLY LAMBERT
AS DELAWARE HEAD COACH
Alma Mater: Texas A&M Kingsville ‘01
Year in Coaching: 23
Years as Head Coach: 6
LAMBERT YEAR-BY-YEAR
• ‘24 CAA Regular Season Champions
• ‘23 CAA Tournament Champions
• Fastest coach in Delaware history
to 50 career wins (70 games)
• Coached team to program records
in consecutive wins, consecutive
set victories, conference wins in a
season, and road wins in a season
• Texas A&M Kingsville Hall of Fame
NOTABLE HIGHLIGHTS
HEAD COACH KIMBERLY LAMBERT
LAMBERT’S COACHING ASSIGNMENT